Acclaimed American playwright William Goldman once said: “No one knows anything”. He was talking about films – no one, according to him, knew with a certainty whether a particular idea would be successful or not on film. He could very well have been talking about books.
Every year, countless titles hit the market, most quickly disappearing into obscurity. The ones that do make it, however, are usually quite unexpected: who knew that stories about a teenage boy wizard or a rich man with strange sexual quirks would become so popular?